Preheating Effect and Single or Multiple Passes on Degree of Porosity, Oxidation and Microhardness of a Duplex Stainless Steel Coating Deposited by Wire Flame Thermal Spraying

Abstract:

This work aims to study the effect of preheating and single and multiple passes on the degree of porosity, oxidation and microhardness in the coating process obtained by wire flame thermal spraying. The air oxidation of sprayed particles after splat affects the performance for duplex stainless steel AF2209 deposited by wire flame thermal spraying on structural steel substrate preheated with torch at different temperatures. The oxide and pore percentage were measured and quantified by optical microscopy with the aid of image analysis software. Images by SEM and the Vickers hardness of oxides and pancakes indicate that oxidation increases with preheating and with the deposition of multiple passes. The results indicate that higher preheaters and the deposition of multiple passes reduce the fragmentation of the particles, but increases the amount of oxides. It is also noted that coating reheating reduces the Vickers mean microhardness of the oxides and pancakes from the single pass condition to the multiple pass condition.

Key-words:
Oxidation; Duplex stainless steel; Thermal spray; Preheating